Technological risk

In addition, the decreasing scientific hteracy among the U.S. general pubhc, in the national media, and in state and federal government raises concerns over the society s ability to assess and balance technological risks and rewards objectively, and to put them in perspective with other needs. 

Chauncey Starr, Social Benefit versus Technological Risk, Science, Vol. 165, September 19, 1969, pp. 1232-1238. 

Cuvello, V T., 1981, Actual and Perceived Risk A Review of the Literature, in Technological Risk Assessment edited by P. F. Ricci et al. NATO ASI Series E-81, Martinos Nijtioff Publisher, The Hague, Netherlands. 

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Rosa Mari Darbra CERTEC Centre for Technological Risk Studies... 

Fischhoff, B., Slovic, P., Lichtenstein, S., Read, S., and Combs, B. 1978. How safe is safe enough A psychometric study of attitudes towards technological risks and benefits. Policy Sci. 9, 127-152. 

The industrial application of solvent extraction is a mature technique, and it is now possible to move from laboratory experiments on a new extraction system to full industrial practice with little technological risk. There is a sufficient variety of large-scale equipment available to cope with most problems encountered in application, although much of the equipment remains rather massive. Attempts to miniaturize, for instance, by using centrifugal forces to mix and separate phases, still has to be developed further. 

Democratizing technology risk, responsibility, and the regulation of chemicals / Anne Chapman. 

Technical or technological risks as the supply of natural gas can be stopped as a consequence of low reliability of a pipeline, related infrastructure (armature, compressors, pumps etc.) or the entire system. 

Allen Clamen Yes, the expected value of an idea can indeed be adjusted by its probability of success based on both technology and commercial risk. The technology risk associated with a particular idea can be estimated based on a number of variables that have been validated by past experience. 

Chapman, A. (2007) Democratizing Technology Risk, Responsibility and the Regulation of Chemicals. London Earthscan. 

In technological risk-reduction measures and the skilled behaviour of the people who manage these systems. 

Also, technology reliability and maintainability will need to be established - as with other emerging technologies. This means the full range of technology risks must be clearly understood as early as possible. The more significant risks must be reduced and the information communicated to potential customers for those technologies. 

Covello V (1983) The perception of technological risks A literature review. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 23 285-297. 

There are technological risk associated with the concurrent reactor research and development and the construction of the reactor fabrication facility. This risk is the potential for significant mid stream changes in the design of the reactor. An example can be found in the technology of superconductors. 

It was assumed that the production of most obvious CRMs (i.e. simple matrix CRMs for classical parameters that were already produced in the past) could be tackled by commercial companies. The role of the European Commission is felt to be necessary when the technological risks for CRM production are significant. The development of CRMs is not a normal market since it involves very specialised manufacturing procedures. No commercial company can afford to develop CRMs in support of many purposes. Quality is the key word commercial materials might not be of sufficient quality to respond to the demand. The EC should act where national initiatives cannot comply with the demand. Participants considered that reference materials should be certified at the EC level, not at the national level, and that commercial products should refer to primary (certified) materials. A scheme should be developed for the mutual acceptance of materials, e.g. establishing a kind of EC label of quality in this context, accreditation of RM producers should become mandatory. 

HITERM integrates high-performance computing on parallel machines and workstation clusters with a decision-support approach based on a hybrid expert system. Typical applications are in the domain of technological risk assessment and... 

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